BIP-110 Explained: Rules, Signalling and Why It Closed
BIP-110 Explained made simple. See the main facts, costs, risks and practical checks before you make a decision.
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BIP 441 Restored Script in Tapleaf 0xC2: Safety Guide
BIP 441 guide to the Draft tapleaf 0xC2 script-restoration proposal, varops, stack limits, unsigned arithmetic, restored opcodes and safety testing.
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BIP 440 Varops Budget: Bitcoin Script Runtime Guide
BIP 440 guide to the Draft transaction-wide variable-operation budget, weight scaling, opcode cost classes, benchmarks, validation and soft-fork status.
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BIP 393 Output Script Descriptor Annotations Guide
BIP 393 guide to Draft descriptor annotations for birth height, gap limit and Silent Payment max label, checksum rules, parsing and recovery safety.
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BIP 361 Post-Quantum Migration and Signature Sunset Guide
BIP 361 guide to the Draft informational post-quantum migration and legacy-signature sunset proposal, phases, prerequisites, risks and readiness planning.
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BIP 392 Silent Payment Output Script Descriptors Guide
BIP 392 guide to Draft sp() descriptors, spscan and spspend encodings, watch-only and full-wallet forms, key origins, recovery and validation.
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BIP 391 Binary Output Descriptors: Closed Format Guide
BIP 391 guide to the Closed Binary Output Descriptor format, PSBT-style maps, key references, birth metadata, validation and proposed replacement.
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What Is BIP-110? a Plain-English Guide to Bitcoin’s Reduced-Data Proposal
What is BIP-110? Learn what Bitcoin’s reduced-data soft-fork proposal restricted, why it was controversial and why it later closed.
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Bitcoin Core 29.2 Release: Consensus and RPC Fix Guide
Bitcoin Core 29.2 guide covering witness mutation checks, onion whitelist permissions, TRUC reorg handling, getblock target fixes and safe rollout.
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BIP 443 OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY: Stateful Covenant Guide
BIP 443 guide to Draft OP_CCV state-carrying UTXOs, Taproot data commitments, output constraints, amounts, fee handling, use cases and activation.
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Bitcoin Core getdescriptoractivity RPC: Descriptor Scan Guide
Bitcoin Core 29 getdescriptoractivity guide covering block lists, descriptor ranges, mempool inclusion, receive and spend events, privacy and safe reconciliation.
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BIP 53 Disallow 64-Byte Transactions: Consensus Proposal Guide
BIP 53 guide to the Draft soft-fork proposal, witness-stripped 64-byte transactions, Merkle ambiguity, SPV risk, compatibility and activation testing.
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